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Frank and Pat Reilly

AERS' Spring Meeting
AERS' Spring Meeting was hosted by Old Dominion University (ODU), and held in the historic (though recently renovated) Hotel James Madison. Dan Dauer of ODU did a wonderful job with local arrangements. In traditional AERS fashion the meeting was held Thursday evening (April 5) through Saturday noon (April 7). The hotel is located in an urban renewal area of Norfolk and surrounded by eclectic eateries and watering holes (mainstays of any successful AERS outing).
Oral presentations were held through out the day on Friday (April 6th) and resumed on Saturday morning. The caliber of papers, especially student papers, was remarkable. Friday afternoon after the business meeting, a poster session and social hour preceded our banquet. AERS elected Steven Fuller of Mary Washington College as the President-elect. Steve will serve a year as President-elect, followed by two years as President, and a final year as Past-President. Also elected was Judith M. Stribling of Salisbury State University. She serves a two-year stint as Secretary. Two additional students were named to the board of directors. Leila J. Hamdan, from George Mason University will serve as the Ph.D. Student Representative. Bruce W. Vogt of VIMS will serve on the board as the Master's level Student Representative. Tim Morris stepped down as chair of the Membership Committee but will remain on the committee; Chris Swarth has begun an indefinite sentence as chair of the Membership Committee.

Student Award Winners
AERS can award up to four student awards for presentations during our meetings, provided the presentations are worthy of merit. This Spring AERS Meeting gave the judging panel a difficult task due to the truly high quality papers presented by AERS student-members.

The Best Poster Presentation was awarded to L.B. Carrier who along with co-authors C.E. Tanner, C.L. Boice, J.J. Dohne and E.L. Gleason, gave the poster entitled, "Examination of the Long-Term Recovery of an Oiled Saltmarsh Following Restoration by Sediment Stripping and Spartina alterniflora Propagation." Ms. Carrier's feat is all the more impressive in that she is an undergraduate at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
C.L. Dryden won the Award for Best Presentation by a Ph.D. Candidate. Co-authors, J.A. Consolvo, A.S. Gordon, and J.R. Donat were part of the team presenting, "Copper-Complexing Ligand Production by Microorganisms in the Elizabeth River, Virginia." Dryden is a student at Old Dominion University.
The Award for Best Presentation by a Master's Level Student went to G.T French, from VIMS, who along with co-author K.A. Moore presented, "Single and Interactive Effects of Light and Salinity Stress on the Growth, Reproduction, and Photosynthetic Capabilities of Vallisneria americana."
The Award for Best Presentation by an Undergraduate Student went to J.T Greenige from the University of the District of Columbia. His co-authors included J.T. Perkins, and Harriett Phelps. His presentation was entitled, "PCB Congeners and Chlordane in Anacostia River Sediments and Asiatic Clams (Corbicula fluminea): Possible Effects of Recent Dredging."

No AERS Fall Meeting
AERS will forgo a fall meeting this year in order to meet in conjunction with ERF at its biennial meeting. The spring of 2002 will see AERS meeting in Lewes, Delaware. The actual dates of that meeting have yet to be determined (the first or second weekend in April), pending the findings of the local arrangements committee, however, a large meeting is anticipated. Check out the AERS web site (http://www.vims.edu/aers/) for further details as they become available.